Thursday, 19 January 2012

As you may have read elsewhere, the wise and thoughtful Councillors in Stony Stratford decisively threw out Herr Bartlett's barmy plan on Tuesday night (previously in this saga, check the Stony Stratford tag).

The margin was seven votes to one (can you guess who?), to go alongside prior epic Barlett failures. The man was his usual barking self during the meeting, at one point being made to apologise for a disgustingly spiteful wish for other members of the council (you know, normal psycho unhinged anti-smoker stuff).

However, once he popped his bug eyes back in his head and stopped frothing at the mouth, the ever-diligent AboutMyArea/MK11 managed to coax a comment or two out of him. Do go have a read as, incredibly, despite unconditional, disastrous, humiliating defeat, he feels he has made some kind of progress!

"It is noticeable that only one member of the public came to the meeting on 17th January to object and this may reflect a general change of mood in public opinion ..."

I often wonder what the big cheeses in the anti-smoking movement really think of people like Bartlett. I guess it's inevitable that any movement which catches the attention of the public will attract its share of loopy-but-dedicated hangers-on who, by their over-enthusiastic zeal actually do more harm than good – a bit like the Occupy protesters at St Paul’s ended up by being invaded by well-meaning but largely incoherent born-again hippies who could hardly string two words together, let alone articulate exactly what the Occupy protest sought to achieve (not helped by the fact that the aims of the original organisers wasn’t exactly clear from the start).

But really, you’d think that with the clout and psychological trickery that the anti-smoking movement has under its belt, it would be inclined to take these unhelpful supporters aside and have a quiet word in their ear to stop them letting the cat out of the bag as to what kind of people anti-smokers really are. It’s a long time since I’ve read any reasonable-sounding comments against smoking (or in support of the ban) anywhere. All the comments/articles I read these days against smoking are coming dangerously close to showing the anti-smoking movement’s true colours, and this must surely worry the puppet-masters in anti-smoking.

Or maybe the fact is that they don’t have the clout that they used to have to mobilise some semi-convincing “supporters” out of thin air and now simply have to put up with nutty ranters like Bartlett in order to give the impression that they still have any support at all …

This parish pump weasel,Bartlett,is not alone .Britain is infested with this type of DooLallis,Bleeding Heart Liberals and assorted pestilences.We British have suffered much sorrow and sadness through the centuries but the current plague of bleating ,anti smoking insectsare worse than the Bubonic Plague,Blitz and BBC combined.Anyway,had the Dipstick Bartlettgot his way,what would the "Warriors" of Stony Stratford done about itNOWT(Northspeak for ZILCH)Like the other 99% of chicken livered,yellow streaked smokerswho continue to mumble,grumble,whimper ,whinge,tremble ,twitter,facebook,youtube and flutter aroundin the digital vacuum.